Show SCANDAL IN COLORADO Graft on a Wholesale Scale is Charged Against Prison Officials Denver Misappropriation of funds graft In construction of buildings In l the purchase of supplies and in the Kale of products fruit the labor of convicts con-victs are the general charges resultIng result-Ing from an uncompleted Investigation of the administration of penitentiary affairs for the last half dozen years Not only have evidences of alleged graft on a wholesale scale running up into the hundreds of thousands been uncovered but the convicts have also bepn shamelessly vlnctimlzed it is t changed though a long serle sot blackmail black-mail where hope of freedom was the bait held out for their few dollars In the case of convicts it is charged their money was solicited by former officials of the penitentiary on promise rt prom-ise of favorable action by the board of pardons |